Barcs ( hu, Barcsi járás) is a district in southern part of
Somogy County
Somogy ( hu, Somogy megye, ; hr, Šomođska županija; sl, Šomodska županija, german: Komitat Schomodei) is an administrative county (comitatus or ''megye'') in present Hungary, and also in the former Kingdom of Hungary.
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Barcs
Barcs ( hr, Barč; german: Bartsch or ) is a border town in Somogy County, Hungary, and the seat of Barcs District. The Drava River marks the southern boundary of the settlement.
Geography
Located at the Croatian border and the River Drava, the ...
'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the
Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
Geography
Barcs District borders with
Csurgó District
Csurgó ( hu, Csurgói járás) is a district in south-western part of Somogy County, Hungary. ''Csurgó'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
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Nagyatád District
Nagyatád ( hu, Nagyatádi járás) is a district in central-southern part of Somogy County. ''Nagyatád'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
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and
Kaposvár District
Kaposvár ( hu, Kaposvári járás) is a district in the central-eastern part of Somogy County. ''Kaposvár'' is also the name of the town where the district and county seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistica ...
to the north,
Szigetvár District
Szigetvár ( hu, Szigetvári járás) is a district in western part of Baranya County, Hungary. '' Szigetvár'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region. ...
and
Sellye District
Sellye ( hu, Sellyei járás) is a district in south-western part of Baranya County, Hungary. ''Sellye'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Southern Transdanubia Statistical Region.
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Baranya County
Baranya ( hu, Baranya megye, ) is a county () in southern Hungary. It is part of the Southern Transdanubia statistical region and the historical Baranya region, which was a county (''comitatus'') in the Kingdom of Hungary dating back to the ...
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Croatia
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n counties of
Virovitica-Podravina and
Koprivnica-Križevci to the southwest. The number of the inhabited places in Barcs District is 26.
Municipalities
The district has 1
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and 25 villages.
(ordered by population, as of 1 January 2013)
The bolded municipality is city.
See also
*
List of cities and towns in Hungary
Hungary has 3,152 municipalities as of July 15, 2013: 346 towns (Hungarian term: ''város'', plural: ''városok''; the terminology doesn't distinguish between cities and towns – the term town is used in official translations) and 2,806 villages ...
References
External links
Postal codes of the Barcs District
Districts in Somogy County
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